| From: | Anton Reinauer |
| Date: | 14 Sep 99 at 02:25:06 |
| Subject: | Re: (OT) AMiGA is dead. (Well mine certainly is...) |
On 13-Sep-99, David McMinn wrote:
>> So here's the thing. I can go and buy a "new" AMiGA in the stores for
>> 1994 prices, which is about £1500, then I can get a PPC board which
> You could try getting a second hand one, it'll be a bit cheaper
> although they're still overpriced. I got a 1200 motherboard for 20
> UKP through AmiBench. A4000 stuff might be harder to get I suppose.
Just check the RamBus of a 1200 with a decent accelerator in it, like
an 030+ with fast on it. Try with an old 3D game on AGA. They can run
quite well as a plain machine, but crap out with an accelerator. Also,
a PPC accelerator may need extra power coming in through the Disk drive
port, or it can crash through lack of power (even with a good PSU), as
the main power connectors are weak :/
>> for some strange reason far beyond me uses expencive 72 pin EDO RAM,
>> and not only that, but you need to have TWO of them. What kind of
>> shit
> I think thats something to do with the EDO ram being 32 bit and PPC
> processors being 64 bit. Can't remember, but you needed 2 of them in
> Pentium PC's as well.
For the 1200, you only need one, the 3000/4000's I'm not sure- I heard
something about 64 bit access, using two 32 bit simms.
>> is that ? Well, P5 rectified that on thier G4 cards, now at least
>> it's SDRAM, but, in their infinate wisdom they decided to use LAPTOP
>> RAM ! What kindof ignorant shit is that ?!?
> Yeah, real dim that. No pun intended.
I think it's so you can fit everything on the 1200 card, but I think
they use the same on the 3000/4000 one :/
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